It’s time to act

It’s time to act

Extreme temperatures linked to climate change have been one of the causes of enormous forest fires, floods and droughts. Nobody and nowhere is safe from the effects of the drastic and accelerated transformation of the planet. Scenes only imaginable in movies are now...
One hundred million elephants

One hundred million elephants

Written by Eduardo Leão de Sousa, Executive-Director at UNICA  The elephant is the heaviest terrestrial animal on our planet. On average, it weighs 5 tonnes. Now, imagine 100 million of them placed on a giant scale, whose balance pan is the size of a large city, such...
The Value of Biofuels in a Post-Covid World

The Value of Biofuels in a Post-Covid World

The Covid-19 pandemic will cause us all to think differently about the way we live. When we can enjoy seemingly minor luxuries like eating in a restaurant or walking through a reopened shopping mall a sense of normalcy may return. The Covid-19 pandemic will cause us...
On the road to Katowice (COP24)

On the road to Katowice (COP24)

As COP24 approaches it is clear that we are nowhere near to being on track to meet the commitments made at Paris. Much more needs to be done just to meet those obligations, and even if we did, this still wouldn’t be sufficient to contain the rise in average...
Indian sugarcane – setting the right course

Indian sugarcane – setting the right course

In the week of 4 to 8 of September I was invited to the Kingsman Annual Sugar Conference in New Delhi (India) to speak about how sugarcane ethanol can contribute to decarbonizing transport and improving air quality. During that week I also had the opportunity to visit...